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By Doug Mohney, on September 24th, 2011 I’ll be at Metaswitch Forum in Las Vegas from October 3 through October 6, so if you’re looking for an opportunity to brief face-to-face, this is it.
Coordination through the Metaswitch press people (Engage PR) is suggested, but not required.
There’s also an invite-only event where to go out to Mike Tyson’s [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 11th, 2011 Polycom sage Jeff Rodman (@jefferyrodman) and I swapped around tweets last week about things you just can’t DO via telepresence these days.
My brag was witnessing the last launch of the space shuttle program, STS-135 Atlantis last week. (Yes, like any good gawking media person, I took pictures and video. You can see [...]
By Doug Mohney, on April 25th, 2011 I’ll be at two shows in May.
Interop Las Vegas 2011, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
Running around the show floor on Tuesday, May 10 and Wednesday, May 11.
TIA 2011, Gaylord Texas, Dallas, TX
Wednesday, May 18 – “HD Voice: Implementing the Advantages” 8:30 am – 9:15 am.
After my [...]
By Doug Mohney, on April 15th, 2011 LG-Ericsson has launched the iPECS-LIK business communications products family. The company says iPECS-LIK delivers all of the functionality of a traditional PBX (and seriously, who is buying a “traditional” PBX these days?) with the addition of UC features.
Offering solutions from 10 users up to 1000 users – this would cover SMB up to [...]
By Doug Mohney, on April 1st, 2011 It looks like France Telecom/Orange is leading the way again in the major carrier space. The company announced it now provides a webphone API cloud service for embedding phone service into a web site.
The webphone API uses the Adobe Flash platform to embed/integrate voice features into business (web) applications, so customers visiting a [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 18th, 2011 Siper Systems (www.sipera.com) has introduced an E-SBC (Enterprise Session Border Controller) appliance, designed for SIP trunk termination and including a VoIP integration module for rapid installation and implementation.
Sipera says the E-SBC can deployed in as little as two hours for typical implementations and can scale from 10 to 10,000 concurrent sessions. Features include [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 18th, 2011 Earlier this month, Zeacom (www.zeacom.com) announced that its contact center solution will interoperate with Microsoft Lync 2010.
Official turn up is slated for June 1, 2011 and will enable Microsoft Lync users to “seamlessly” interop with Zeacom Communications Center (ZCC) contact center solution. Customer service agents will get extra tools to improve service [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 28th, 2011 NOT from Orlando, Florida – Global Crossing, Verizon Business, and XO Communications all introduced cloud-based communications services today.
You can find more information on XO’s rollout of its HD voice and video service on HD Voice News. Key points out of its release are 1) They’re supporting HD voice and video on an enterprise-basis [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 15th, 2010 Huntsville, Alabama-based ADTRAN (www.adtran.com) has announced a full line of Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions.
The NetVanta 2000 series of devices use ADTRAN’s baseline hardware with Sonic Wall’s software on top, getting the company quickly into the security market without having to develop software in-house. ADTRAN is owning the product, so if you [...]
By Doug Mohney, on November 15th, 2010 Global Crossing announced it has signed up a Big Deal with Office Depot, providing the company with a large MPLS network for “more than 100” Office Depot warehouse distribution centers and large customer sites in the U.S., Europe, China and Israel.
It’s a three year, multimillion dollar contract providing Office Depot with a “strategic [...]
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